Isaac Asimov was born between the 4th of October 1919, and the 2nd of January 1920. He arrived in the United States on the 3rd of February 1923 aboard the RMS Baltic at age three.
Isaac Asimov earned a Master of Arts degree in chemistry in 1941 and completed his Doctor of Philosophy degree four years later. He subsequently accepted a position as associate professor of biochemistry at Boston University School of Medicine.
Isaac Asimov created the Foundation trilogy published between 1951 and 1953 and the Robot series which introduced positronic robots governed by the Three Laws of Robotics. The Foundation trilogy won the Hugo Award for Best All-Time Series in 1966.
Between 1958 and his terminal illness, Isaac Asimov contributed 399 monthly columns to Fantasy and Science Fiction magazine. These essays gave him a reputation as a Great Explainer who made complex topics accessible without assuming complete ignorance on the part of readers.
Isaac Asimov died in Manhattan on the 6th of April 1992 with heart and kidney failure reported as the cause of death. Ten years later Janet Asimov revealed that he had contracted HIV during triple bypass surgery at NYU Medical Center in December 1983 due to a blood transfusion.